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WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #62, February 23, 2022

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WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #62, February 23, 2022  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/02/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-62-february.html Soviet Phobia/Russo Phobia: In the 1990s US decided to expand NATO threateningly eastward and to exclude Russia.  (DICK)Rajan Menon, War with Russia? February 8, 2022. Progress? Let’s see. We’ve gone from unending wars in distant lands against enemies capable of little more than wielding firearms and roadside bombs — and those conflicts were disasters — to the possibility of a war in the European heartland between nuclear-armed foes. I mean, honestly, what could possibly go wrong? And it was all fated to happen in Europe because of that anti-democratic nightmare of an […]

Climate Memo Mondays, #63, February 21, 2022

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ContentsPublic Relations, Control of Information, and  Fossil Fuels CompaniesRise of Authoritarian Rule: Hett’s Book on Hitler’s Control of InstitutionsMother Jones Covers the Right-Wing War on DemocracyVFP: No War with Russia: Spend Money on Climate Emergency Fossil Fuels, “Public Relations,” Edelman.  Why Fossil Fuels Companies Have Been Able to Continue Extracting Oil, Coal, Gas  From 350.orgFor decades, fossil fuel companies have used public relations (PR) firms to fabricate their image, protect their reputation, greenwash their activities, and spread disinformation to the public.These PR firms operate in the shadows, but they are a key element of Big Oil’s success in deceiving the […]

Climate Cafe’ Invites You

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Tuesday Mar 1 – 6:30-8:00 pm on Zoom This is an invitation to The Resilient Activist’s Inaugural Climate Café  Register at the link to receive access to the Cafe’. This is your best opportunity to connect with a community that gets you, with folks who are experiencing many of the emotions that climate change has brought out in your heart and mind.   There is nothing for you to commit to except to gather your favorite beverage, a journal, find a comfortable spot with your Zoom window open, and just be you.   Each session will include facilitators from The Resilient Activist as well as […]

Vanguard’s Very Big Climate Problem

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Sunday Mar 6 – 1:30 pm on zoom In partnership with an international coalition, Earth Quaker Action Team is taking on one of the largest investors in climate destruction. Come hear why they think this is an effective strategy for change, why nonviolent direct action is part of their approach, and what they are asking Vanguard customers to do. (It may not be what you expect.) Eileen Flanagan is the Interim Campaign Director and former board clerk of Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT, pronounced “equate”). Ahead of the 2020 election, she served as Trainings Coordinator of Choose Democracy, which trained nearly 10,000 people in nonviolent strategies […]

Open Mic for Peace – In person again!

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Sunday Mar 6 2022 – 7:00 pm(emergency-only Zoom link below) Open Mic returns in-person Hoping March will smile on us! Here’s a link to the emergency-only Zoom Open mic session on Mar. 6. But it’ll be better to come to Omni and enjoy the company of your people! It’ll be wonderful to see your faces and hear your voices, good friends! 7:00 pm at Omni https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88258123344?pwd=Yk5makZubTFDcUtqQnRnQ3VSd3RTZz09 Meeting ID: 882 5812 3344 Passcode: 703547

Gulf Waters Need Your Signature — very much!

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Food and Water Watch letter to Biden   Are you in a group or organization who cares about climate and water protection? Food and Water Watch is looking for groups just like you to sign an important letter to the Biden administration. 80+ climate and environmental justice organizations – including Omni Center — sent a sign-on letter to President Biden and Interior Secretary Haaland to ban offshore drilling by creating a new Five-Year Offshore Lease Program with no new lease sales beginning in 2022. The letter also calls for Secretary Haaland to follow the law and reject controversial Lease Sale 257, […]

62.  Climate Memo Mondays, February 14, 2022

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62.  Climate Memo Mondays, February 14, 2022 http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/02/climate-memo-mondays-62-february-14-2022.htmlGreta Thunberg from Age 15 to 18, World Tour for the Planet.Australia’s Drought: Quentin Beresford’s book Wounded Country.Capitalism and Growth: DEgrowth Necessary. CLIMATE AND POLITICS, POLITICS OF CLIMATE GRETA THUNBERG.  “A Year to Change the World, Episode 3.”  PBS, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, 7p.m.  (Episode 1 appeared Feb. 3, 7 p.m.; Episode 2 Feb. 10, 7 p.m.)  All on PBS4 World Ch. 700. CAPITALISM AND CLIMATEAustralia’s Drought: Quentin Beresford’s book Wounded Country. ‘Look up’, Australia: How capitalism and climate change are turning our food bowl to dust.  Editor.  Mronline.org (2-8-22). Quentin Beresford’s book […]

60.   WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS,#60   February 9, 2022

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60.   WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS,#60   February 9, 2022Conversion Movement from war to peace:Mandy Smithberger, Shifting tax dollars from fear and militarization to hope and human needs.Michael Klare, Stopping the encirclement of China and Russia. jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/02/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-60-february-9.html “US should shift military spending to pandemic and climate change.”  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (11-26-21). The COVID-19 pandemic vividly illuminated the many ways in which the American approach to national security has been fundamentally focused on the wrong threats, writes Mandy Smithberger, director of the Center for Defense Information at the Project On Government Oversight. Read more. TOMGRAM Michael Klare, Welcome to the New Cold War in […]